Machine for repeating pattern-cards.



No. 764,129. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904. R. JOHNSTON.

MACHINE FOR REPEATING PATTERN CARDS. APPLICATION FILED MAR.16. 1904.

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PATENTED JULY 5, 1904.

MACHINE FOR REPBATING PATTERN CARDS. 4

APPLICATION FILED MAR.16. 1904.

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PATENT QFFICE.

ROBERT JOHNSTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR REPEATING PATTERN-CARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,129, dated July 5, 1904.

Application filed March 16, 1904. Serial No. 198,479. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, ROBERT JOHNSTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Repeating Pattern-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a machine for repeating pattern-cards; and in such connection it relates to means connecting the selecting-needles of such a machine with the keyrods'controlling the punches, whereby in the repetition of a card to be repeated a'reverse of the design appears upon the repeated card.

Heretofore in machines for repeating pattern-cards the group of selecting-needles controlled by a pattern-card and the group of key: rods controlling the mechanism for punching the repeated card were so connected that the original pattern-card Was repeated in duplicate so far as its design is concerned in the repeated card. When a complemental card con: taining the reverse of the design on the original card was necessary, the complemental card was of necessity cut by hand, an operation involving much labor and superior skill upon the part of the operator.

The principal object of my present invention is to so adapt or reorganize a patterncard-repeating machine that the original card may be repeated in reverse design in a complemental card.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fullyunderstood from the following description, takenin connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of a machine embodying main features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, enlarged, of a portion of an orignal card to be repeated in reverse design. Fig. 3 is a plan view, enlarged, of a portion of the repeated card, having the design in reverse of the card of Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged detail views illustrating the preferred connection between the lovers and the selective needles or keyrods. Fig. 6 is a View corresponding to Fig. 1, but illustrating a modified form of the invention, in which upon presenting the back ofthe original pattern-card to the selective needles a card having the reverse of the design of said back may be cut; and Fig. 7 is a plan view, enlarged, of a repeated card formed by the arrangement illustrated in Fig. 6.

Referring to the drawings,the repeating and punching mechanisms illustrated are modifications of the well-known Royle card-repeating machine, as illustrated, for instance, in Letters Patent of the United States No.

304,864, dated September 9, 1884:. These mechanisms consist, essentially, of a group of selective needles (0, a group of key-rods b, controlling the group of punches (Z, and a pattern-cylinder c,'OVe1 which the cards f to be repeated are moved to control the operation of the selective needles c.

In my present invention the group of selective needles a is connected with the group of key-rods b by a series of levers g in such a manner that instead of the selective needles a repeating, through the key-rods I) and punches d, the precise design of a card f the needles will so control the punches cl, through the key-rods b, that the reverse of the pattern, on the card f will appear upon the repeated card f. To accomplish this result, as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, the first lever g in series connects No. l of the group of needles c with No. 4 from the bottom of the group of key-rods b, controlling the punch No. 4: from the left of the group of punches d. In the same manner the second of the levers g in series connects needle No. 2 with a key-rod 3, controlling punch No. 3 from the left; the third lever g connects needle No. 3 with keyrod No. 2; the fourth lever g connects needle No. 4: with key-rod No. 1; the fifthlever connects needle No. 5 with key-rod No.8; the sixth lever connects needle No. 6 with keyrod No. 7; the seventh lever connects needle No. 7 with the key-rod No. 6, and the eighth lever connects needle No. 8 with key-rod No. 5. As will appear from the original card f and the repeated card f in Figs. 2 and 3, such an arrangement and connection results in reversingupon the card f thedesign of the original card f, for if, as shown at the first row on the right of the card f in Fig. 2, the I first needle in series is operated it will, through its lever g and key-rod No. 4: in series, repeat at& in the card f of Fig. 3. Again, if in said first row of the card f a needle 7 is operated it will, through the key-rod 6, repeat at 6 in the card f, and so on throughout the various rows of the respective cards.

In Figs. 6 and 7 a modified form of the invention is illustrated, in which upon turning the back of a card f to the selective needles ainstead of its face the repeated card f will still have the design in reverse. To accomplish this result, a similar connection to that heretofore explained between the needles (6 and key-rodsbis made by the levers g. In this instance the levers are so arranged that the needle 1 from the top is connected with the key-rod 4 from the top, needle 2 with the key-rod 3, needle 3 with the key-rod 2, needle 4 with the key-rod 1, needle 5 with the keyrod 8, needle 6 with the key-rod 7, needle 7 with the key-rod 6, and needle 8 with the keyrod 5. If now the card f of Fig. 2 is turned over in the first row of punch-holes at the right-hand end of the card, needle 2 from the top will be operated to leave blank space 3 on the repeated card f of Fig. 7, and needle 8 from the top will also be operated to leave space 5 on the repeated card by rendering, through the key-rods 3 and 5 from the top, respectively, punches 3 and 5 in series inoperative.

In both forms of the machine the preferred connection between the levers g and either the needles a or key-rods I) is illustrated in detail in Figs. 4 and 5. It consists in making the body of a needle or key-rod in two pieces 1 and 2 and hooking contiguous ends, as at 3 and 4, in an eye 5, formed at either end of a lever g. The levers gin both instances have fulcral points g intermediate of their ends in the framework 9 of the machine.

In both forms of the invention it will be understood that the group of selective needles and the group of key-rods are both arranged in two sets of four needles or key-rods, respectively, and that in Fig. 1 the first set of needles is connected by levers g with the last set of key-rods and the last set of needles with the first set of key-rods in such a manner that the first needle controls the fourth key-rod in each set, the fourth needle in each set controls the first key-rod, and the intermediate needles, the second and third in each set, control intermediate key-rods, the third and second, respectively, in each set. In Fig. 6, however, the first set of needles is connected with the first set of key-rods and the last set of needles with the last set of key-rods; but otherwise the connection between single needles of each set with single key-rods of each set remains the same as in Fig. 1. Thus in Fig. 6 the first needle of each set is connected with the fourth key-rod of a corresponding set, a fourth needle with a first keyrod, and intermediate needles, such as the second and third, with intermediate key-rods, the third and second in each set, respectively.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine of the character described, a group of punches, a group of key-rods controlling the group of punches and arranged in sets of four rods, and a group of selective needles arranged in sets of four needles, combined with a group of levers connecting one set of four needles with one set of four keyrods, and a second set of needles with a second set of key-rods, and said levers arranged so that the first needle in a set is connected with the fourth key-rod, a fourth needle with the first key-rod and intermediate needles, the second and third, with intermediate keyrods, the third and second in the set, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In a machine of the character described, a group of punches, a group of key-rods controlling said punches and a group of selective needles combined with a group of levers arranged to connect respectively the first of the selective needles with the fourth key-rod of the group of key-rods, the second needle with the third key-rod, the third needle with the second key-rod, the fourth needle with the first key-rod, the fifth needle with the eighth key-rod, the sixth needle with the seventh key-rod, the seventh needle with the sixth key-rod and the eighth needle with the fifth key-rod, whereby said selective needles control through the levers, key-rods and punches the repeating of a design in reverse to that of the card presented to the needles.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBT. JOHNSTON. Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

